A leaked draft copy of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report (AR5) surfaced earlier this summer and triggered a small tempest among climate bloggers, scientists and
skeptics over revelations that a key metric, called the «Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity» (ECS), had been revised downward.
Rather than any of the current uproar about
skeptic's conflict of interest being some kind of new
revelation to investigate, the situation instead begs for investigating why it has only a single highly questionable and literally unsupportable source for the «corrupted
skeptic scientists» allegation, and why no journalists
over the last 20 + years have ever checked the veracity of the allegation.